Using Herbs to Adapt to the New Year
Liferoot loves using herbs as a New Year habit to help with whatever life is pitching and demanding of you. The following herbs are adaptogens in our book, and can assist you in keeping your body resilient and thriving in your current or desired lifestyle.
Open Door Healing and Liferoot Botanicals Collaboration
You could say this collaboration began over yoga :) Cathy and I have frequently attended some crazy hard hot yoga classes, and in the end when you are laying in shavasana, you get all sorts of visions (or maybe just lack of electrolytes).
Incense Ritual and DIY Incense Blends
The ritual of burning flowers, herbs & plants has been around for centuries. Many religions and groups have used incense and smoke of them burning as part of their spiritual rituals.
Healing Bath Soaks (with recipes!)
Over the bathtub in our backhouse we have a small blue sign that says, “When all else fails, take a bath.” That phrase has definitely rung true with our family, because a bath makes you feel so much better. If you’re sick, sad, need a rest, need a detox, if it’s a full moon, feeling like the world is caving in on you, whatever…
DIY Elderberry Syrup and Gummies Recipe
Elder is by far one of my favorite plants, herbs, fruit & flower. All in one, this plant can pack an immune system punch and is safe for most everyone* to use.
DIY Potpourri
One of my favorite things about the holidays when I was a child was walking into the kitchen and smelling the potpourri simmering on the stove. Warm fragrant wafts of cinnamon, cloves and grapefruit floated through the air…
DIY Sugar Scrub (several scents & variations)
Sugar scrub is invigorating & exfoliates your skin… as well as moisturizes the heck out of it. AND…it has an intoxicating aroma that leaves your skin feeling soft & amazing.
Infused Sea Salt
Salt has gotten a bad rap in the last few years (with some merit to hypertension), but it mostly applies to white table salt. Sea salt is a wonderful additive to your diet, and in balanced amounts can be beneficial for your cells, heart, muscles, and adrenal glands.
Salted Pistachio Dark Chocolate Bark
If you know me personally, you probably know how much I love chocolate. If there was ever a choice of flavor as a kid, I always picked chocolate, cake, ice cream, lip gloss flavor…and to this day I do.
DIY Infused Olive Oils
Herb-infused olive oil is great for a salad dressing, a dip for bread, a garnish for veggies, tomatoes, or over pasta. Depending on the blend, it can be very nutritious, help boost the immune system, and supply many herbal properties to your meal.
Make Your Own Chai Spice Blend
Chai spice is such a great thing to have for tea, coffee, smoothies, desserts. And its a great gift too (ps, the teachers love it)! If you love chai, then you will want to have this on hand in the fall and winter.
The Amazing Acorn
We love acorns. These small but mighty fruits (yep, thats what I said) are fun to collect, replant, eat and make crafts with! So many fun things you can do with them!
What is your skin eating?
YOUR SKIN:
EATS, ABSORBS, INQUIRES, TRANSMITS, PERCEIVES, FEELS, MESSAGES, QUESTIONS, DELIVERS…
WE FEEL THE WORLD THROUGH THE SKIN…
Best Breast Practices
The breast is such a right of passage for a girl into womanhood, a joyful adorned organ whose function is special…to produce milk for breastfeeding as part of the women’s reproductive system. They are also a source of detox and lymphatic drainage to keep us healthy.
🌱 The Wild Wisdom of Weeds 🌱
They might seem like annoying noxious hindrances in your yard, or growing out of cracks in the sidewalk… but some of these so called “weeds” have so much wisdom and healing power that predates you or I. Before you spray your chemicals…take a moment and think, could this be here for a reason?
Eat your Sun Screen? Foods for Sun Protection
Some extra sun protection can be supported by the food you consume and even foods you apply on your body…
Growing our Liferoot Roots
This. is. us.
Our journey together.
Our love for plants and all things natural…